visit may 11! tours, lecture, plant sale

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GARDEN OPEN DAYS start at my place in Columbia County, New York, on Saturday, May 11, when this slow spring promises lots of early goodies that would normally have gone by. Make a day of it: Reserve your ticket now for a morning organic fruit-growing lecture by Lee Reich, plus an afternoon grafting workshop—and an all-day plant sale by Broken Arrow Nursery is also on tap. The details:

Margaret, Please help if you can! I need a climbing vine, preferably flowering, but if not, one with interesting foliage that can grow in complete shade. I’d love to order ahead from Broken Arrow so I can pick it up on the 11th. If you could come up with a solution to this problem I would be eternally grateful.
Thank you!

Margaret,
I am so excited to be coming from Chicago to tour your garden this weekend. I have been following your blog, reading your books and generally have been so influenced by your garden and expertise for so many years. It is a dream come true and Mother’s day gift to myself!

For years I have wanted to go and this year I am going. So excited for the plant sale too! Clearing out the minvan and putting all the seats down to make room for all my new goodies! Hope the weather forecast improves. Margaret, I am looking for something for the corner of the front of my house, a nice specimen tree or bush, part shade/part sun. Any suggetions and I’ll call ahead. I was thinking of a stewardia maybe?

Wish I could see your garden in person! I’m in Mass. and can’t get there this year. I’ve already seen it on the pages of MS Living, and go back to that issue many times to “tour” your garden again. I especially like your choice of colors, and that big patch of hellebores. And I love your description of how you started with certain ideas of what you wanted to do, then finally let the land tell you the right way to go.

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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

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Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.